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fixing a setup guide

Mar 17, 2008, 6:34 PM

Post #1 of 6 (2715 views)

Hello,

I just subscribe to gentoo-doc and this is my first post.

This doc needs to be fixed:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/jffnms.xml

I can fix it or somebody can look at bug: 186406
and fix it. Since I was the original person that requested
jffnms be support by gentoo, and I have installed it and used
it on many networks, maybe I should maintain the doc?

Who knows, if this experience is *pleasurable* maybe, just
maybe, I'd be willing to maintain a few other docs.

Ok coarse, I'll need a little bit of constructive criticism,
from time to time.....

deal?

James

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Re: fixing a setup guide [ In reply to ]

nightmorph at gentoo

Mar 17, 2008, 9:13 PM

Post #2 of 6 (2635 views)

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wireless wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just subscribe to gentoo-doc and this is my first post.
>
> This doc needs to be fixed:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/jffnms.xml
>
>
> I can fix it or somebody can look at bug: 186406
> and fix it. Since I was the original person that requested
> jffnms be support by gentoo, and I have installed it and used
> it on many networks, maybe I should maintain the doc?

1. Please file new bugs for documentation updates, rather than writing
to the gentoo-doc list or adding comments to old RESOLVED FIXED bugs.

2. We can't do anything about marking it amd64; you would need to file a
bug and assign it to amd64@gentoo.org and request the package to be
keyworded.

3. If you're interested in "maintaining" this guide, then it's as simple
as opening a new bug against it and providing a patch with changes. We
will review and fix the doc.

Re: fixing a setup guide [ In reply to ]

jkt at gentoo

Mar 18, 2008, 3:08 PM

Post #3 of 6 (2634 views)

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Josh Saddler wrote:
> 3. If you're interested in "maintaining" this guide, then it's as simple
> as opening a new bug against it and providing a patch with changes. We
> will review and fix the doc.

And if you submit so many good patches that we get tired of committing
them, we'll ask you if you want to become a developer and maintain stuff
yourself.

Cheers,
-jkt

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Re: fixing a setup guide [ In reply to ]

1i5t5.duncan at cox

Mar 18, 2008, 6:19 PM

Post #4 of 6 (2638 views)

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Jan KundrÃ¡t <jkt@gentoo.org> posted 47E03D65.8060102@gentoo.org, excerpted
below, on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:08:37 +0100:

> And if you submit so many good patches that we get tired of committing
> them, we'll ask you if you want to become a developer and maintain stuff
> yourself.

LOL. That's a nice way of putting it. I can't help but compare that to
the answer in the current dev discussion. This one seems so much more...
effective/upbeat/humorous/apropos/... but about as accurate as it gets.

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Re: fixing a setup guide [ In reply to ]

nightmorph at gentoo

Mar 18, 2008, 7:59 PM

Post #5 of 6 (2629 views)

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Jan KundrÃ¡t wrote:
> Josh Saddler wrote:
>> 3. If you're interested in "maintaining" this guide, then it's as
>> simple as opening a new bug against it and providing a patch with
>> changes. We will review and fix the doc.
>
> And if you submit so many good patches that we get tired of committing
> them, we'll ask you if you want to become a developer and maintain stuff
> yourself.

Yup; this is more or less how I was recruited. They got tired of having
to make so many proxy-commits for me. ;)

"Gosh darnit, do your own work!" they said, and thwopped me with CVS access.

Re: fixing a setup guide [ In reply to ]

wireless at tampabay

Mar 19, 2008, 4:17 PM

Post #6 of 6 (2627 views)

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Josh Saddler wrote:
> Jan KundrÃ¡t wrote:
>> Josh Saddler wrote:
>>> 3. If you're interested in "maintaining" this guide, then it's as
>>> simple as opening a new bug against it and providing a patch with
>>> changes. We will review and fix the doc.
>>
>> And if you submit so many good patches that we get tired of committing
>> them, we'll ask you if you want to become a developer and maintain
>> stuff yourself.
>
> Yup; this is more or less how I was recruited. They got tired of having
> to make so many proxy-commits for me. ;)
>
> "Gosh darnit, do your own work!" they said, and thwopped me with CVS
> access.
>

OK all of this is fine (wonderful). However, I'm a slave to other
responsibilities so this is all as I get time to develop some
deliverables to the gentoo community. Surely I have a few things to
learn, in a greater depth.

I'll start by enhancements to the jffnms installation doc.....

Then we'll go from there.

James

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